Hailman's career rends exciting, humorous stories

5:03 PM,
Jun. 20, 2013

Written by

Bill Minor

My first read of John Hailman's "From Midnight to Guntown" was with a rough copy. Now in hardback after being edited by University Press of Mississippi, the ex-federal prosecutor's courtroom stories (all true) are even funnier.

You'd think a hard-nosed litigator would have few interests beyond criminal law. But wine connoisseur and syndicated wine columnist with a soft heart for bank robbers? Hailman's all of that, and more.

Midnight and Guntown are two little burgs in Mississippi that figured in dozens of crimes Hailman prosecuted over 30-plus years. Instead of putting Midnight and ...